All five of these things have something in common, they get the player to help the server in some way. Voting exposes us to more people, staying logged on for long periods of time keeps the server active, paying money for rickies helps us fund contest prizes and upgrades, trading with other players helps the economy which keeps players engaged and eventually the referral system will litreally get new players on the server in exchange for rickies which is an obvious benefit.

If we gave Rickies for XP however we would just have players going to their enderfarms to make money with no server benefit.

Pri Thank you so much for your time and devotion to this shop it is really making your server even better! Also thanks for having this server for all of us to play on. It really is the best server ever